Sham handkerchief and method of making the same



Jan. 7, 1930. UCHTER 1,742,606

SHAM HANDKERCHIEF AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAIE Filed Aug. 13, 1928 JELJREE 1? INVENTOR Patented Jan. 7-, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE a.

MALVIN LIGHTER, OF NEw YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR '10 MALVIN LIGHTER INC., A (103- i PORATION OF NEW YORK SHAH HANDKEROHIEF AND METRO D OF MAKING THE SAME Application filed August 18, 1928. Serial No. 299,278.

My invention relates to sham handkerchiefs and method of making the same.

By a sham handkerchief I mean an article to be carried in the pocket like a handkerchief, and provided with a cloth portion to extend from the pocket and thus to simulate the appearance of a handkerchief carried in the pocket.

The sham handkerchiefs are adapted for use in advertising, as souvenirs, as badges, as campaign emblems, and in fact in any and all relations where it is desirable or convenient for people to display something like a handkerchief protruding from a pocket.

By my invention I seek to simplify and cheapen the article for quantity production, by a method of manufacture.

Reference is made to the accompanyingdrawing forming a part of this specification, and in which likeletters indicate like parts throughout the several figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the parts I use in making up two sham handkerchiefs together, as the parts are assembled at an early sta e of the manufacture.

igure 2 is a plan view of the parts shown in Figure 1, but as they appear at the next successive stage of manufacture.

Figure 3 is a plan view of an unfinished sham handkerchief made from the composite structure shown in Figure 2.

Figure 1 is a plan view of one of the sham handkerchiefs, completed.

Figure 5 is a section on the line 5 5 of Figure 2, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows. I

A cardboard blank, shown at 6, is coated with glue or other adhesive upon its face here shown.

The cardboard blank is provided with score lines 7 8, and thus marked off into three panels 9, 10, 11.

Two cloth members 12, 12, each having two portions 13, 14, so folded that the portion 14 overlaps the portion 13, are laid upon the exposed face of the cardboard blank, so as to rest upon and adhereto the panel 10' thereof, as indicated in Figure 1.

Next the cardboard blank is bent upon the score lines and 8, the panel 9 being folded over 'upon the adjacent portion of the cloth members 12, 12, and then the panel 11 is folded over, to engage the adjacent portion of these cloth members, and to overlap the panel 9, as indicated in Figures 2 and 5.

This leaves the materials in the form indicated in Figures 2 and 5; that is, a flat, self closed member 15, having the form of a flat tube, with the cloth members 12, 12, protruding from its ends; this cloth member being secured firmly to the cardboard by the adhesive.

I next take a number of the members shown in Figure 2 and cut them across the middle, thereby producing unfinished sham handkerchiefs 16, as shown in Figure 3.

Lastly, I trim off the sharp corners and thereby produce thefinished article shown at 1; i115 Figure 4, provided with facet corners This completes the manufacture.

At the start the cardboard blanks are preferably but not necessarily provided with advertising matter or other intelligible data, as indicated by the legends John Doe- Laundry.

In cutting the members 15, as well as in trimming off the sharp corners to make the facet corners 18, 19, the material is preferably built up into stacks, and cut by means of an ordinary paper cutter. However, this may be done by hand where the articles are made on a small scale.

I do not limit myself to the precise details above set forth, the scope of my invention being commensurate with my claims.

I claim:

1. The method, herein described, of making sham handkerchiefs, which consists in makin a cardboard blank, coating one face thereo with an adhesive bringing two cloth members into engagement with said face and causing the same to adhere thereto by said adhesive, bending said carboard around said cloth members so as to enclose portions thereof, leaving other portions protruding, and cutting said cardboard member in two, thus forming two sham handkerchiefs.

2. The method, herein described, of making shamhandkerchiefs, whichconsists in preing said cardboard member paring a cardboard member carrying a pair of cloth members spaced apart and protrud ing from said cardboard member, and severat a point intermediate said cloth members, thus forming two sham handkerchiefs.

3. The method, herein described, of making sham handkerchiefs, which consists in preparing a member of sheet material, coating one face thereof with an adhesive, applying to said face and to said coating a plurality of cloth members so positioned as to pro trude outwardly from the edges of said member of sheet material, folding said member of sheet material so as to enclose said cloth members except the protruding portions thereof, and severin said member of sheet material so as to produce a plurality of sham handkerchiefs.

4. The method, herein described, of making sham handkerchiefs, which consists in coating a member of sheet material on one of its faces with an adhesive, applying to said face thus coated a plurality of cloth members, said cloth members being so positioned as to protrude from the edges of said member of sheet material, the portions of said cloth members thus protruding being formed to simulate corner portions of handkerchiefs, folding said member of sheet material upon itself so as to enclose said cloth members ex cept the protruding portions thereof and thus to cause each of said cloth members to adhere to two different portions of said face coated with said adhesive, and finally cutting said member of sheet material into a plurahty of separate pieces each carrying one of said cloth members.

5. The method herein described, of making sham handkerchiefs, which consists in preparing a member of sheet material, applying to one face thereof an adhesive coating, bringing into contact with said face thus coated a plurality of cloth members s aced apart, each of said cloth members having a portion simulating a portion of a handkerchief, each cloth member being so positioned upon said member of sheet material as, to leave protruding therefrom said portion of the cloth member thus simulating said portion of said handkerchief, and cuttin said member of sheet material into a plurahty of different parts, each carrying one of said cloth members.

6. The method herein described, of making sham handkerchiefs, which consists in preparing a cardboard member coating one entire face thereof with an adhesive laying two cloth members upon said face and bringing said cloth members against said adhesive so as to cause said cloth member to each adhere to said face of said blank coated with said adhesive, bending said card-board member around so as to enclose portions of said cloth members and leave other portions thereof protruding, and cuttin member in two, upon a line 4 tween said cloth members.

7. The method herein described, of makber and leaving other portions of said cloth members protruding, board member in two, handkerchiefs. v

Si ned at New York city, in the county of New ork and State of New York, this ninth day of August, 1928.

MALVIN LIGHTER.

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